Chelsea shrinks its defense, so the space freed will naturally be occupied by Manchester City.

The concealment also stimulated Manchester City. After they took possession, they launched a fierce attack on Chelsea's goal, hoping to equalize the score before the end of the first half - if possible, that was the best result.

At this time, we can see how correct Ancelotti's decision was.

If Chelsea continues to attack Manchester City after scoring the goal, then Manchester City can use the space they left behind in the attack to play a defensive counterattack.

That's too easy for Manchester City led by Benitez.

But now Chelsea recovers its defense, which has caused considerable trouble for Manchester City's offense.

They cannot use simple and fast counterattacks to score goals, and they have to spend more time and energy to score goals.

There is not much time left in the first half, so there are not many opportunities left for Manchester City.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon the first half reached the 44th minute. The fourth official stood on the sidelines, holding a sign of injury stoppage time in his hand, operating on it.

He will tell everyone how many minutes of injury time will be in the first half.

"The first half is almost over. Overall, the first half was relatively smooth, and there was not much time delay, so there shouldn't be too much injury time in the first half..."

"Two minutes, up to two minutes." Alan Hansen said from the side.

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Sneider took the ball in the frontcourt and he was pressed by his opponent again. This is a microcosm of the defense he was subjected to throughout the first half.

After being injured, Sneider returned to work and was in a bad state, and he struggled to face such defense. If he had no problems with his condition and physical condition in normal times, Sneider would not be so embarrassed to deal with such defense.

However, after this first half, Sneder gradually adapted and looked for countermeasures.

Since the opponent wants to press close and want to grab the ball from himself, he should reduce the time he takes the ball, change his role, and change from a midfield organizer to a transitioner.

Most of the time, the football is quickly transferred to the feet of other teammates. Many times, what is needed here is not observation, but instinct and intuition, and experience.

So this time when Sneider got the ball, he passed the ball directly.

He did not pass the ball to others, but to glory.

Because Chelsea contracted its defense, Rong Guang also turned his back to the goal at this time.

Seeing the football being passed to him, Chelsea's players strengthened their oppressive defense against him, putting him on the outside, pressing him tightly against him, and preventing him from turning around easily.

Everyone knows the threat of Glory, especially when approaching the goal. Now when the first half is still a few minutes away from the end, Chelsea is actually not defending Chelsea's offense, but defending Glory.

Therefore, just keep the glory in check.

Before Rongguang could catch the ball, he felt the pressure from behind.

In this case, it will be difficult and waste time. Even if you turn around, you will still face Chelsea's iron walls. What's the point?

Although he can pass the ball on his own and reorganize the offense, he was still rich in the game, and the first half is about to end. How can he have time to deal with Chelsea slowly?

So there must be another way to break the deadlock.

During the time when football rolls toward himself, he has to make a decision.

Is it possible to stop the ball and turn around, or to pass the football directly? Is there any way to threaten Chelsea's goal?

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The person responsible for the support behind Glory is Chelsea's captain, central defender John Terry.

And beside Glory, there is Barack, who guards Glory from another angle.

As long as Glory stopped the football, he rushed forward and surrounded Glory, making it impossible for him to turn around and threaten the goal. As long as he was forced to pass the football back, the defense would be considered successful. Time will pass quickly in Manchester City's meaningless back and forth, reaching the end of the first half.

Barack kept staring at Glory, trying to see how he would get the ball.

At this moment, he suddenly glanced at a figure out of the corner of his eyes, wearing a black away Manchester City jersey, and he flashed through the corner of his field of vision.

Barack noticed this and couldn't help but look at it.

Because he found that the figure was running forward, and the direction of the penetration was behind John Terry

He saw that figure clearly, David Silva...

He's fucking into the penalty area

That was a vacancy...

Barack suddenly turned his gaze back to glory.

He happened to see Rong Guang lift his right foot, but this action didn't look like stopping the ball, because his foot was lifted a little high...

Next, in almost a blink of an eye, Rong Guang lifted his right foot and swung his heels backwards.

He passed the ball

Or pass the ball on the heel

Football just drilled through the unprepared John Terry's legs

Go straight behind the defense line

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"Rong passes the ball beautifully..." Before John Motterson could finish his sentence, David Silva had already received the ball

So he changed his words quickly, raised his voice and shouted loudly.

"David Silva, he has no defense"

Chelsea's defense has focused all its attention on Glory. Everyone is just thinking about stopping Glory from shooting and not allowing Glory to score, but they all ignore that Glory will not only shoot and score.

You should know that Rong Guang's position in Manchester City's formation is the front midfielder.

David Silva received the ball passed by Glory when he stepped into the penalty area. Without any hesitation, he directly shot.

A bang

The football rushed forward quickly against the turf.

Although goalkeeper Cech made a save move, because Rong Guang's kick was very sudden, he did not expect Manchester City to form a goal so quickly. His save move was a little slower and the coverage was not very large.

In addition, David Silva kicked the ball with the most difficult save.

Cech's hand was not able to save the ball...

The football rolled past him and then rolled all the way into Chelsea's goal

Chelsea only led by three minutes

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"GOOOOAL David Silva David Silva David Silva" John Motterson raised his arms and shouted. "He equalized the score for Manchester City at the end of the first half"

Everyone on Manchester City's bench and coaching bench jumped up, rushed to the sidelines, waved their arms, jumped up hard, and shouted.

After losing the ball, I quickly equalized the score, nothing better than this one

Next door, on the bench of Chelsea, many people hugged their heads with their hands, widened their eyes, and stared at the stadium with incredible eyes.

It is hard for them to believe that their team was tied after only a few minutes.

Between the two, the fourth official, just as David Silva shot, he just raised the sign in his hand, which clearly showed the Arabic numeral "2". As Alan Hansen said, the injury time was two minutes.

But Manchester City didn't use these two minutes to tie the score

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Ancelotti stood on the sidelines and listened to the cheers coming from the bench and coaching seat next door, and felt a little sad.

His mind was full of guard against glory and guard against glory. He never expected that it was not the glory that scored the goal, but David Silva.

The whole Chelsea team followed his instructions and defended Glory strictly.

But who would have thought that in this game, glory is not the terminator, but a... assister

When he faced strict defense and could not turn around and get rid of it, Rong Guang decisively gave up his plan to shoot, but passed the football out, and it was such a beautiful pass with a heel.

Such an assist was really unexpected.

Who could have thought?

No one can think of it

He tried his best to make Chelsea able to hold the lead of such a ball.

As a result, his preventive measures only worked for three minutes.

Three minutes later, Manchester City tied the score.

All Chelsea's efforts in the first half were wasted...

The lead no longer exists, and before the end of the first half, both sides returned to the same starting line.

But the impact goes far beyond that.

The blow to Chelsea's morale was also very obvious.

The Chelsea players will definitely feel frustrated when they think of the lead that they finally got in the first half.

This kind of emotion is very deadly when facing a powerful enemy like Manchester City.
To be continued...